‘The lord chief justice has urged the government to deal with the thorny issue of forcing retirement upon part-time recorders believed to be clogging up the judicial system.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th September 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Robin Allen QC, Chair of the Bar Council’s Equality and Diversity and Social Mobility Committee, said today’s publication of the Lammy Review was a major contribution to the important and urgent task of securing a fair and equal criminal justice system.’
The Bar Council, 8th September 2017
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The Lord Chief Justice has today laid his 2017 annual report before Parliament.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 7th September 2017
Source: www.judciary.gov.uk
‘Politicians from both opposition and government should be involved in appointing the most senior judges, Lady Hale has proposed.’
Litigation Futures, 23rd August 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Britain could be subject to rulings by the European Court of Justice for years after the UK leaves the European Union, it has emerged.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th August 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The country’s most senior judge has called for government guidance amid fears over legal precedents and the status of long-running cases.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government must offer some clarity on the judiciary’s relationship to the ECJ – because the Brexit bill itself is ambiguous, and will lead to uncertainty all round.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A former Court of Appeal judge has stoked the debate about judicial independence by suggesting that rules preventing judges from speaking about their role fuel media and public distrust of the criminal justice system.’
Law Society's Gazette, 28th July 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Arguments over “apparent bias” in judges should be based on the view of a “fair-minded and informed observer” and not the feelings of clients, Lord Justice Burnett has said.’
Litigation Futures, 27th July 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Brenda Hale’s appointment as president of the UK supreme court is a landmark. But the highest echelons of the legal profession still need change.’
The Guardian, 23rd July 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Baroness Hale of Richmond will succeed Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury as President of the UK Supreme Court, it was announced today, alongside three additional appointments to the UK’s top appeal court.’
Supreme Court, 21st July 2017
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
‘Judges are “left uneasy” by professionals presenting their own challenges to regulators as litigants in person (LIPs) and ignoring the “best points” available to them, the High Court has heard.’
Legal futures, 21st July 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The senior judiciary has expressed anxiety about efforts to recruit solicitors to the bench after figures showed the proportions are going backwards.’
Law Society's Gazette, 20th July 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Rt Hon Sir Ian Burnett has been appointed the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2 October 2017.’
Courts and Tribunals Judicairy, 14th July 2017
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Speech delivered by the Lord Chancellor at a HM Judges’ dinner at Mansion House, 6th July 2017’
Source: www.crimeline.info
‘Speech by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales at the Dinner for Her Majesty’s Judges, 5 July 2017.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 6th July 2017
‘Brexit will see Britain’s top judges prove they are the best in the world, the new Justice Secretary has insisted.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Jacqueline Macdonald-Davis and Jessica Baldwin are spearheading a campaign to court greater diversity among volunteers to the bench.’
The Guardian, 4th July 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘I have taken as the first part of the title of this lecture words with which Lord Scarman would have been very familiar: Law Reform Now – the three words which formed the title of the Gerald Gardiner and Andrew Martin book which contained their blueprint for what would become the Law Commission. As Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC, in the course of tracing the origins and huge success of the Law Commission in his 2015 Scarman Lecture, recalled, it started with a proposition; one they took to be axiomatic: “. . . that much of our English law is out of date, and some of it shockingly so.” They were not wrong.’
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
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